Monkey business in Pompeii - Unique find of a juvenile barbary macaque skeleton in Pompeii identified using osteology and ancient DNA techniques [2]

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1410-1414

  Bailey, Jillian F ^a,e   Henneberg, Maciej ^b   Colson, Isabelle B ^a   Ciarallo, Annamaria ^c   Hedges, Robert E M ^d   Sykes, Bryan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

12S rRNA; Cercopithecine; Macaca sylvanus; Mitochondrial DNA; NADH5; Roman archaeology

Indexed keywords

DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARCHEOLOGY; BONE; DNA SEQUENCE; LETTER; MACACA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKELETON; TOOTH;

MACACA; MACACA SYLVANUS; MAMMALIA; ROMAN;

EID: 0032875446     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026051     Document Type: Letter

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